Case report

Generalized edema with hypoproteinemia as initial presentation of celiac disease in a 3-year-old boy: case report

Ivona Butorac Ahel orcid.org/0000-0002-7130-7574 ; KBC Rijeka
Mirna Šubat Dežulović
Goran Palčevski

Abstract

Edema is defi ned as abnormal accumulation of fl uid in the interstitium. Diff erential diagnosis of generalized edema is very broad.
Most often, renal and cardiac causes lead to generalized edema. The potential gastrointestinal causes of edema are liver failure and
protein losing enteropathy including celiac disease and protein malnutrition. Generalized edema is rarely an initial manifestation of
celiac disease. Hereby, we present a case of a 3-year-old boy with celiac disease, initially presented with generalized edema and hypoproteinemia.

Keywords

celiac disease; edema; hypoalbuminemia; child

Hrčak ID:

153109

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/153109

Publication date:

25.9.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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